Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

This data collection contains FIPS codes for state, county,
county subdivision, and place, along with the 1990 Census tract number
for each side of the street for the urban cores of 550 counties in the
United States. Street names, including prefix and/or suffix direction
(north, southeast, etc.) and street type (avenue, lane, etc.) are
provided, as well as the address range for that portion of the street
located within a particular Census tract and the corresponding Census
tract number. The FIPS county subdivision and place codes can be used
to determine the correct Census tract number when streets with
identical names and ranges exist in different parts of the same
county. Contiguous block segments that have consecutive address
ranges along a street and that have the same geographic codes (state,
county, Census tract, county subdivision, and place) have been
collapsed together and are represented by a single record with a
single address range.

This data collection contains FIPS codes for state, county,
county subdivision, and place, along with the 1990 Census tract number
for each side of the street for the urban cores of 550 counties in the
United States. Street names, including prefix and/or suffix direction
(north, southeast, etc.) and street type (avenue, lane, etc.) are
provided, as well as the address range for that portion of the street
located within a particular Census tract and the corresponding Census
tract number. The FIPS county subdivision and place codes can be used
to determine the correct Census tract number when streets with
identical names and ranges exist in different parts of the same
county. Contiguous block segments that have consecutive address
ranges along a street and that have the same geographic codes (state,
county, Census tract, county subdivision, and place) have been
collapsed together and are represented by a single record with a
single address range.

Study Description

Citation

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1990 [UNITED STATES]: TIGER/CENSUS TRACT STREET INDEX FILE (VERSION 1). Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1992. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09787.v1

(1) Due to the number of files in this collection,
parts have been eliminated here. For a complete list of individual
part names designated by state and county, consult the ICPSR
Website. (2) There are two types of records in this collection,
distinguished by the first character of each record. A "0" indicates
a street name/address range record that can be used to find the Census
tract number and other geographic codes from a street name and address
number. A "2" indicates a geographic code/name record that can be
used to find the name of the state, county, county subdivision, and/or
place from the FIPS code. The "0" records contain 18 variables and
the "2" records contain 10 variables.

Methodology

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 1992-11-01

Version History:

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 551 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.